While some museums are closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Apollo’s usual weekly pick of exhibitions will include shows at institutions that are currently open as well as digital projects providing virtual access to art and culture.
In recent months monuments have become a focal point in debates over the nature of historical memory. This display at the University of South Florida (USF) Contemporary Art Museum in Tampa (22 January–6 March) looks at a series of artists’ interventions that challenge the narratives of the past presented by public memorials. The exhibition includes installations, films and photographs relating to five such projects. John Sims’s film
While some museums are closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Apollo’s usual weekly pick of exhibitions will include shows at institutions that are currently open as well as digital projects providing virtual access to art and culture.
The influence of Mike Dibb on the genre of the television documentary is unparalleled. He remains best known for
Ways of Seeing, the six-part BBC series he made with John Berger in 1972, but over the course of his long career he has directed dozens of films covering subjects across art, literature, music and politics; his biographical documentaries include portraits of Salvador Dalí, Miles Davis, Edward Said and David Hockney. With this online series, the Whitechapel Gallery is making more than 50 of Dibb’s films available to stream online. The programme runs from 8 January–26 March, with several new films released each week, arranged into three sections entitled ‘The Play of Ideas’, ‘The Arts of Improvisation’, and ‘Conversation Piec
While some museums are closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Apollo’s usual weekly pick of exhibitions will include shows at institutions that are currently open as well as digital projects providing virtual access to art and culture.
Marking the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri, the Uffizi has launched a virtual exhibition of Federico Zuccari’s illustrations after the Florentine poet’s
Divine Comedy. These beautiful and intricate drawings, completed between 1586 and 1588, have rarely been exhibited before; viewable here in high definition and arranged, in the words of the museum, ‘as a journey’, they follow Dante’s narrative canto by canto – leading through each concentric circle of hell, up the Mountain of Purgatory, and into the spheres of heaven. Later in the year, a major exhibition co-organised by the Uffizi and the Cassa dei Risparmi di Forlì Foundation, taking place in Forlì, will explore Dante’s influence on visual artists over the cent
While some museums are closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Apollo’s usual weekly pick of exhibitions will include shows at institutions that are currently open as well as digital projects providing virtual access to art and culture.
The Philadelphia Museum of Art reopened, along with five other institutions in the city, on 8 January, offering another chance to see this broad-ranging display of artworks, posters and archival materials relating to the provision of medical care over the last century (until 4 April). The exhibition looks in particular at care in times of crisis, exploring how images have been used to celebrate caregivers – whether professional medics or informal community networks – and to advocate for social reform. Highlights include Elizabeth Catlett’s portrait of an army nurse during the Second World War, and images from W. Eugene Smith’s famous photo essay of 1951 depicting the work of Maude Callen, a nurse and midwife from South Carolina. Find out more
While some museums are closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Apollo’s usual weekly pick of exhibitions will include shows at institutions that are currently open as well as digital projects providing virtual access to art and culture.
The Khalidi Library, which opened in Jerusalem in 1900, boasts one of the largest private collections of Arabic manuscripts in the world; it comprises some 1,200 titles, with the oldest dating back around 1,000 years, as well as around 5,500 printed volumes and papers documenting the activities of the Khalidis, a prominent Palestinian family, since the 18th century. Following a major digitisation project undertaken with the Hill Museum and Manuscript Library in the US (described by the cataloguer Joshua Mugler in the November 2020 issue of